The Washington critic., 1887-02-14
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Continuing his remarks about the
wives of Senators, the correspondent
of the Philadelphia Times goes on to
say: The family of the handsome
senior Senator from Rhode Island, Mr..
Aldrich, Is not in Washington this
present season. Mrs. Aldrich was Miss
Abby p Green, the beautiful ward of
one of Providence's well known mer-
chants. Her daughter Lucy, now at
Pennington at the school of Miss Por-
ter, sister to President Porter of Yale,
will finish this year and will make her
debut in Washington next winter. Her
second daughter, Abby, now in her
teens, is under the instruction of
governess. There are also five boys In
the Senator's family, who are being edu.
Gated under the care of Mrs. Aldrich.
The wife of the junior Senator from
Rhode Island was Jane Moon of Bucks
County, of Quaker family of early
prominence in the Society of Friends
of the State Of Pennsylvania. and her.
self Quakcress of the orthodox school.
Her two daughters are young. Senator
Chace belongs to the New England
Quakers and wears his Quaker garb.
His ancestors were among the early
sufferers under Puritan intolerance
toward other religious sects. The Sen.
ator and Mrs. Chacc adhere to all the
strict principles of their Society, and
therefore stand aloof from the fashion.
able triiles and follies of gay life at the
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cially represented by Miss Kate Footc,
who presldes over the household of
the senior Senator since the death of
her sister, Mrs. Hawley, and by, Mrs.
Plat. Mrs. llawley, who died during
trac,ed in the performance of her So
cial duties, was Miss Harriet Foote.
Her aunt was the wife of Lyman
Beecher, the mother of Henry Ward
Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Miss Kate Foote, Miss Adeline Haw.
ley, cousin of the Senator, and
Margaret Hawley, the late Mrs.
Hawley's niece, god.child and
adopted daughter from the cradle,
make up the Senator's family. Miss
Foote is the regular Washington CORE.
spondent of the Independent, New York
and contributor to the Century and
other magazines. Mrs. Senator Platt,
who Is In mourning for her mother and
brother and therefore not In society
this season, was Annie p. Bull, daugh-
ter Of James B. Bull, farmer on the
banks of the North Branch Of the Sus
quehanna, near Towanda, Pa. She is
niece Of Chief Justice Lewis of Penn
sylyania. Her father was also one of
the pioneer editors of Bradford County
and q Canal Commissioner of the early
days. Mrs. Platt Is a most estimable
lady.
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In 1868, when ex-senator William
Pitt Kellogg, then Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Nebraska, happened to
be on his way West, as he tells the
story himself to the Cincinnati Times
Stars Washington correspondent, he
stopped In Illinois, at place where he
lad pair of horses. He was sick
and thought he would take his team
and drive to Nebraska. He arrived in
Omaha with the team; and while he
was holding court there, Ben. Chap.
man, an old bachelor, was constantly
borrowing the team. Mr.. Kellogg did
not know what to do with the team
after he had finished his court work,
and had made arrangements to board
them. But Chapman came to him one
day and offered to trade OIL some land
for the team, They drove out to the land,
which was 1G.acre tract, They made
the trade while they were there. Mr..
Kellogg took then ten acres of the
tract at $50 an acre, the team, har.
ness and wagon being counted at $500.
In few months he purchased the
other six acres at 500 an acre. This
was in 'G3. He has held on to part
of the land with great persistence since
that time, parting only as under pres
sure from his agent at Omaha, with Oc.
casional sales of small portions. His
holding last year was reduced to three
acres. He sold seven eighths of an acre
out of this tract for $3S 900. He took
that S3S, 900 and invested In piece of
property in the northwest of Washing.
ton, known as the widows mite prop.
erty. He paid $40 600 as the purchase
price. lie was offered few days ago
100000 In cash for this Washington
purchase. He can sell out the balance
of his real estate tract In Omaha at any
time for 100000 So the team stands
him in to-day clean profit of over
$4,000
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The young, fair haired wife of q
member Of the Stock Exchange who
gravitates between Prince Il Whitley s
and Decker Howell IL Co. S offices left
town the other day for short visit,
says yesterdays New York Sun. She
returned Unexpectedly, and found a
letter addressed to her husband await
ing his return from the street late in
the afternoon. 1t was signed Frank
Smith" and said; "Now that the old
woman Is gone, let's go to the theatre